Walkerton Independent, Volume 74, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 March 1949 — Page 13

March 31, 1949

KOONTZ LAKE NEWS LETTER I would like to thank the Koontz Luke Fire Dept., for the wonderful work they did in fighting the fire that spread on to my farm on Monday March 28. —Mrs. Elinore Capes. The Fergusons had Old Home i WMk latl Week-end. Their daughter and s m-in-law, Mr. and frfrs. Douglass Maus and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Rigler, of Chicago, Mr .and Mrs. Bert Pemble of Grant Park, HI., and Mr. and Mrs. 11. Heniger and family, of Momence, 111., were Sunday visitors. Mrs. Caspar Lawrent<• and son, Don. end a friend from Wheeling, W. Virginia, called on the W. O. Fergusons Monday. The women of the Conservation Club Auxiliary are asked to meet at the clubhouse. Monday, Auril 11 at loan. a. m., to fpw for the country Fair. Bring your lunch. Coffee will be nerved. The Board of Directors of the Koontz Lake Fire Department Assn., will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday. April 4th at the Fire Station at 7:30 p. m. Ah important business will be transPUBLIC tSALE© I will sell at Public Auction the personal property of the late William H. Dipert at the second house west of Anderson’s Hotel, Koontz Lake, on Saturday, April 2 Commencing at 1:00 O’clock P. M. HOUSEHOLD GOODS I One 1936 Ford Tudor; 1 Hot Point electric ice box; 1 combination coal and bottled gas stove; 1 Warm Morning coal stove; one dining room table with 6 chairs; 6 ■upholstered dining room chairs; 1 single bed with springs; 2 double beds with firings; 2 9’xl2’ rugs; one 9’x9’ rug; one studio couch; 2 diessers; 1 kitchen table; 2 kitchen chairs; 1 commode; 1 China closet; 1 electric sweeper; 1 porch swing; 1 porch glider; 5 lawn benches; and other miscellaneous articles. TERMS — CASH ARCHIE SCHULTZ. Auct. WALTER SAUER. Clerk Garold E. Dipert: Administrator

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[ acted, every member is urged to attond. ' —-H. L. Fries, Sec’y. DON’T FORGET Friday, April Ist. That is tl.e night the Koontz Lake Fire Department Assn., will have a bingo party. Everyone is invited and a very interesting evening is planned by the committee on arrangaments. The place—The Koontz Lake Conservation Club house Come any time after 8 p. m. m. Refreshments will be served. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Shellhase and Mr. and Mrs. John Turnbull । left last Sunday for Morgan City, La. Mitty and Adolph expect to spend a month visiting their son and his family, but the Turnbulls are expected home some time this week. Mr. and Mrs Ed. Olin have returned to their home at the lake after spending three months with their son, Spencer and family, in Arcadia, Calif. The Olins centainly appear ten years younger and it shows what a real vacation can do for a person. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Whalen of Chicago, attended the Aronson funeral Tuesday. The Oregon township Home Ec. Club will meet Tuesday, April 12th at the home of Mrs . Margaret Shawcraft, near Grovertown. Conservation Club Activities Twenty-ono members enjoyed an evening of relaxation and a very delicious pot-luck supper Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Braudel and son, Harlan, of Chicago, drove down to show Pop and Mom Brandal their new Nash and spent the evening at the club, as did W. M. Krafft, whose mission over the week-end was a battle with oak . leaves April hostesses, Bertha Phillips and Ann Ganzer, invite you to this month’s Saturday night pot-luck supper which will be served at 7:30. They hope to see some of our out-of-town members now that spring has really arrived. Mark Saturday, April 30th on your calender as that is the evening of our big spring card party. —ln Memoriam—- ' It is with sadness and a deep felt loss that we report the death of one of our most beloved neighbors and club members. Ida Aronson had been ill since last fall, but few of her friends realized this fact as rhe never complained and had a smile and a joke for everyone. The latter part of February, Mrs. Elsie Swanson entertained for Mrs. Aronson and it was on that evening, after excruciating pain that she went to the doctor, and on March Ist was operated upon for gall bladder trouble.. On Sunday. March 6th she acted and looked like she would, quote, “be pitching horseshoe;; this spring”, but the following dey and on each succeeding visit she grew weaker ai d weaker. Ida leaves, besides her J children and relatives, hundreds of dear friends who sincerely mourn her and who know they have lost

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| a real pal. To quote a young man, |"I can’t remember when I didn’t obtain from her some vital spark in her philosophizing or humor.” 1 Pres. Harry Friei; and past pres., Clyde Ricketts and A. B. Brandol of the cub and Mr Arthur and Victor 'Samuelson and Andrew Johnson of Immanuel Lutheran church were the pallbearers. Following the service the children, relatives, pall-bearers and their wives had dinner with the Ricketts family, Ida has left us, but the sincere affection, truth and love she exemplified, lingers on. —II J. R. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cranmer and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stanley spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. John Sorensen. Mrs. Everett Ream and Marilyn of Walkerton, and Mis. Carl Stanley and Linda of Koontz Lake, were in Logansport and Rochester Wednesday to visit Mrs. Arthur Mundy and Mrs. Lase Edgar. wh< are old school friends Mrs. Edgar who lives in Atlanta. Mich, is visiting in Rochester with her parents, Mr. and Mis. Samuel Nicodemus. Teegarden Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bowers were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Smith and children. They were celebrating Danny’s firnt biithday. Mr. and Mrs. FrankSmith of Akron called in the ; fternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schultz of Tyner, Joyce Schultz and Janice Bolcnbaugh of Smith end were Su. - day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Bolenbaugh. Janice Bolenbaugh will enter the Memorial hospital Thursday for surgery. Clarke Dare who has been in the Parkview hospital for observation and treatment returned home on Wednesday. aptismal services were held in the North Liberty First Brethren church Sunday afternoon when 10 candidates from the Tee-garden and County Line churches; were adminstered the rites of baptism by Rev. Monroe, pastor cf the churches. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hornsby spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Barthel and family in Union Mills, i Mrs. O. D. Harbaugh has been quite ill for the past week. । Mis. Eldon Metcalf has been on the sick list. The S. S. class party was held Friday evening in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sani Bowers, with Mrs. Tom Hornsby as devotional leader. There were 43 present. 1 Mr. and rMs. Jesse Smith and family were sunoer guests Monday of Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Monroe and family. The occasion was in celebration of the first bithdays of Danny Smith and D ivid Monroe which fall on March 27 "nd 28 respectively. A large chicken house was destroyed by tire on the Roscoe Newcomb farm Tuesday morning. About 750 growing Leghorn pullets were lost in the blaze. YOU CAN Tee! the Difference] ! K J Ik PHOSPHATE K A O R° gk hr Jlw — fineness pays— Ground liner than flour, so fine that 85% will pass through a 300 mesh screen 90,000 openings to the square inch, RUHM'S PHOSPHATE ROCK is in a class by itself. No other even approaches it in fineness. That's why it is so quick acting, why it achieves such thorough distribution in the soil, why it gives such splendid results with all crops. Since 1897 RUHM'S PHOSPHATE HAS BEEN THE FINEST. Inquiries invited. f * Vedder & Sons, Inc. Disti ibutor of Ruhm’s Phosphate Rock Phones 238 W or 105F31 । Walkerton, Indiana

Primrose Road Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Mclntyre and daughter, Mrs. John Boron and daughter, Mis. Wilbur Naragon, Mrs. Russell Naragon attended a shower for Mrs. Eugene Mclntyre at the home of Mis. Ralph Clipp of Wyatt Wednesday evening. Mrs. John Boron is working for Mrs. Inman Whitmer several days a wook. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Gardner called on Mr. and Mrs. Chester Johnson Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Jolin Boron was hostess for a Stanley patty Thursday after noon. Guests were Mrs. William Newcomer, Mrs. Jolly of Walkerton, Mrs. Wilbur Naragon and sons, Mrs. Chester Johnson and Mrs. Russell Naragon. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stump and son called on Mr. and Mis:. Russell Naragon Thursday evening. Willard N iragon and Miss Helen Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Naragon and Williams were dinner guests of children Sunday. Afternoon callers were Mr. and Mis, Lloyd Summerlot and daughter of Walkerton. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Hochstetler called on Mr. and Mrs. Chenier Johnson and daughters Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kring were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kring and family. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Naragon and family < f South Bend called on Mr. and Mrs. Russell Naragon Sunday evening. They were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stump and son. Mrs. Ed. Kring and daughters called on Mis. Russell Naragon Tuesday forenoon. Nothing In Them “It borders on the illegal for a woman to go through her husband’s pockets while he is; sleeping,” says a judge. It usually also borders on the futile. Lock Out, when it’s dark out!

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Rear Attack He—Do I strike you as a gentleman ? She—Certainly not! No genth'man would strike me when* you just did. The reason some men can’t keep their nose to the grind, one is that they have it stuck in other people’s business. PUBLIC SALE 1 1 » Miles North of Donaldrnn. Saturday, April 2 At 1:00 O’clock P. M. HOUSEHOLD GOODS Walnut bureau, Walnut commode. Walnut cliphoard, set matching Walnut chairs, cain hot toms in excellent condition; antique old fashioned beds, drop leaf extension table, 3 platform rokers. Singer sewing machine. Kalamazoo white enamel wood : nd coal range stove, circulating heater, 6 kitchen chairs. 6 leather seat chairs, 2 mirrors, canned frait, table linens, dishes, cooking utem/ls, bedding of all kinds, wheel havnu.v, electric table model radio, electric Speed (Jueen washing machine, electric iron, electric brooder stove, extension table, book case and writing desk. 9xlo wool rug, 13x13 ingrain carpet, 9x12 linoleum, several rag rugs, ironing board. 8-day clock. 2 cupbeards, fc'ding cot. chicken feeders, galvanized laying nests. I*2 tons coal and sieve wood, and other miscellaneous articles. Lunch bv Let hern Ladies. Aid TERMS — (ASH CARL OLSON Adm. of Anna Olson Estate HAROLD STEINER, Auct. Roy Sheneman Atty for the Estate